“You really thought she was their daughter?” I teased, nudging him with my elbow.
He rolled his eyes. “She looked like she belonged there, okay? It wasn't totally my fault.”
I laughed again but then grew more serious when I saw the look still on his face. “You don’t like Daphnie?”
Silver let out a slow sigh, shaking his head. “No. It’s not that. I don’t even know her well enough to like or dislike her.”
“Then what’s the problem?” I asked.
He stayed quiet for a moment, like he was trying to find the right words. His lips parted like he was about to speak, but before he could, a voice rang out from deeper in the woods.
“Kaia!”
Silver and I both turned our heads sharply in that direction.
“Did you hear that?” I asked, my heart already beginning to race.
“Yeah,” Silver said, already s
